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Tech Standards: Navigating a Table Using JAWS
Image with dogs and cats and a Table showing colors of dogs and cats. Text, "Accessible Tables"
Learn how to create an accessible table (for teachers) and how to navigate a table with a screen reader (for teachers and students).
ObjectiveEd: Sara and Kai Use Braille AI Tutor
Cartoon hands on a Braille Display with an iPad showing ObjectiveEd Read Aloud and text, " Game that improves braille literacy!"
Learn how the Braille AI Tutor game improves braille literacy.
Zoom-Zoom: How to Magnify Zoom Chat on a Chromebook
Photo of Zoom meeting's magnified chat box on a Chromebook.
Low vision strategies for remote learning using the Zoom platform and a Chromebook.

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Hands-on activity to teach students who are blind or visually impaired about the concepts of the thermometer.
thermometer on a wood deck
Teaching the Concept of the Thermometer
Description of the use of the PIAF machine to produce tactile graphics for science for students who are blind or visually impaired.
Tactile graphic produced on a PIAF machine of a battery and a light bulb.
Use of a PIAF machine to produce tactile graphics for science
Summary report on the POSB and NCTM conferences for teachers of math and science working with students with visual impairments
Computer at POSB and Math Conference
The POSB Science and Math Conference
Tips for reading tactile graphics in science for students who are blind or visually impaired.
high school student uses tactile graph book
Tips for Reading Tactile Graphics in Science with a Focus on State Assessment
Students from Perkins School for the Blind visited Woods Hold OCeanographic Institution after collaborating to provide a high quality education about the ocean.
students by steamships
Studying Chemistry with Oceanographers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Models used in Science are generally visual in nature. These tactile models benefit students who are blind and visually impaired.
knitted digestive system with enlargement of view of liver
From Tactile Models to Tactile Graphics
Tips on using volunteers to help students who are blind or visually impaired with their science projects
student using braille notetaker with skeleton in background
Volunteer Assistance with Science Projects
Tips on collaborating with other professionals when teaching students who are blind or visually impaired.
rocks and minerals
Collaboration with Other Professionals
Teacher-made iBooks: Dolce Word Lists and Literary Braille Code.
Dolce sight word poster
Dolce Word Lists and Literary Braille Code: iBooks
Blog about a study to determine whether students who are blind or visually impaired are more motivated to work on math problems in braille/print or an iPad app.
Student using braille to read
What Motivates Learners More, Access to an iPad App to Work on Math Word Problems or The Problems in Print/Braille?
Hands-on activities to help students who are blind or visually impaired understand science concepts by using real and relative distances.
measurements on a football field
Using Real and Relative Distance to Teach Science Concepts
New England Ocean Science Education Collaborative
Kate Fraser and Amy Bower stand on the deck of ship with the open ocean in the background
Ocean Literacy Summit: The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected
For a student with a visual impairment, a “model” rather than a picture truly is worth a 1,000 words.
iron atoms on copper
Collaboration with an Artist to Create Scientific Models
Summary of global soundscapes.
three wolves howling at the moon
Learning More About Global Soundscapes
Something I notice at this time of year are the begging sounds of what I believe to be juvenile Red-tailed Hawks.
red tail hawk
Birds of Prey at Perkins
Back to school! And... there will be a student with a visual impairment in your science classroom!
students sitting at desks in a classroom
Back to School with a Student with Visual Impairments

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